‘Paper Under Glass’: is this the book of the future?

Dr. Kevin Burden: Reader in Digital Education, The University of Hull, UK

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The e-Book: an Oxymoron?

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What will the term ‘book’ mean in the future?

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Fixed PC Laptop Tablet Smartphone

Ownership of technologies (Hull University pre-service teachers )

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Mobilising & Transforming Teacher Educators’s Pedagogies

www.mttep.eu

OutputsA European Mobile Learning Network for Teacher Educators

- O S C A R W I L D E

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

- O S C A R W I L D E ( A L M O S T ! )

“If one cannot enjoy creating a book over and over again, there is no use in creating it at all.”

- O S C A R W I L D E ( A B I T ! )

“If one cannot enjoy interacting with a book over and over again, there is no use in interacting at all.”

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Traditional authoring model

AActive Constructive

Passive Consumption

Gate-keepers

The death of the book

Hundreds of years of loyal service, and this is how you repay us?

Replacing us with Kindles and iPads???

‘paper under glass’

Matt Macinnis (CEO)

“ We need to stop thinking about the future of publishing and think instead about the future of reading…” and writing

Clive Thompson (Journalist)

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The book is not dead (yet!)

Up 2.4% in 2014 (Nielsen BookScan)

2012: horribilis Annus for print

Nielsen BookScan 2014

HP study San Jose State University 2014

Reading preferences

What do readers most like about textbooks?

HP study San Jose State University 2014

What do readers most like about e-Books?

HP study San Jose State University 2014

“The printing press, the computer, and television are not therefore simply

machines which convey information. They are metaphors through which we

conceptualize reality in one way or another. They will classify the world

for us, sequence it, frame it, enlarge it, reduce it, argue a case for what it is like. Through these media metaphors,

we do not see the world as it is. We see it as our coding systems are. Such

is the power of the form of information”

Neil Postman

Project Gutenberg

Michael Hart

‘Replicator Technology’

The Kindle Reader (2007) ‘paper under glass’?

Looking backwards to the future…

Medieval readers could have a kind of power over the texts they read unknown to their modern counterparts … [I]n a culture in which print does not confer authority, any reader’s marginal jottings, or extended commentary, at least have the potential to be incorporated into the text the next time it is copied. The distinction between reading and writing cannot have been as clear as it seems to us; any reader could become a writer simply by writing.

(Struges, 1991, p.3)

Rubrics

Dominican Missal, c. 1240, with rubrics in red (Historical Museum of Lausanne)

Glosses

Illuminations

Non-sequential reading habits

Nicholas Carr

An interactive environment

Medieval and Print Based Traditions

Medieval codex (pre-print) Print based books

iterative finalised

multi-authored single author

collaborative space inviolate space

multimodal predominantly text

non-linear narrative single narrative

active contsruction by reader passive consumption by reader

high paratextual content high textual content

socially constructed and interpreted single view imposed on reader

The book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek

Signposts to the future book

Agency Customisation

Personalisation

Conversation

Data-sharing

Collaboration

Situatedness

Contextualisation

Authenticity

A pedagogical framework for mobile learning

Kearney, M., Schuck, S., Burden, K., & Aubusson, P. (2012) Viewing mobile learning from a pedagogical perspective,

Research in Learning Technology Vol. 20, 2012

Collaborative writing

Non-linear ‘reading’

The Institute for the Future of Books

Non-linearity and choice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxLpMMzXVCk

Social reading

Social reading (ReadSocial)

http://www.readsocial.net

Personalised, adaptive books

Interactive books

Context sensitive books(Device6)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1vlWWnESf0

Situated (‘The Walk’)

Situated (‘The Walk’)

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Hybrid books: A bridge between paper books and the digital world?

Hybrid books

Interactive print - LAYAR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi80g9WJvmw

Learner Generated Books

Apps for building books

Learner Generated BooksApps for building books

Schools reinventing themselves as ‘knowledge building communities’

Schools reinventing themselves as ‘knowledge building communities’

Affordances and characteristics of the book of the future» highly contextualised reading experience

» highly customised reading experience with personalised ‘narrative trajectories’

» highly social reading experiences

» permeable boundaries between authors and readers

» unbounded - a frame rather than an artefact

Print books

Author Publisher Reader

Author Reader Scribes Reader Scribes Reader Scribes Reader

A shifting editorial continuum

Inception

Publication

Publication

Publication

Publication

Medieval codex

The Book of the Future???

Personal Collaborative

Static Dynamic

Knowledge Skills

Collecting data Creating and sharing data

Teacher centered Student centered Learner centered

Feature Pedagogical implication

Multimodal (many elements) Multiple literacies

Expandable/easy to up-date Developed not writteniterative learning

Dynamic feedback Individual learning pathways

Portable Transcends physical space

Collaborative & social Rubrics for group assessments

Intelligent (‘Big Data’) Personalised learning

Augmentable Differentiation

Easy to author Authority and Power:Who is the ‘expert’

Authentic audience Motivational and demanding

www.mttep.eu

And finally….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwAuTbx3xKE

Q U E S T I O N S ?

Dr. Kevin Burden Reader in Digital Education The Faculty of Education The University of Hull, UK k.j.burden@hull.ac.uk Twitter: @edskjb